IIT Bombay likely to reopen campus for all in December

Postgraduate and PhD students have returned except those in their first year to avoid overcrowding in hostels and labs. 

The Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Bombay will resume offline classes for undergraduate second-year and third-year students after a gap of more than 20 months. The institute is likely to open its door to students in December this year. Those who had enrolled in the institute 2020 will get to see their campus for the first time not as freshers but as sophomores. They have already missed one year of their campus life due to the COVID-19 pandemic. 

IIT Bombay Director S Sudarshan told a leading daily, “We have written to all second and third-year students that we are happy to have them back in December.”  

Classes to begin on January 3 

He also shared the students’ reactions and said they were quite happy to return to the campus. Meanwhile, final-year students were granted permission to return to campus two months ago. While some of them have already returned, others will be back by December before classes begin on January 3.  

The postgraduate and PhD students have returned except those in their first year to avoid overcrowding in hostels and labs. The decision to open the campus for all was taken in a recent senate meeting. 

Institute to collect vaccine certificates of students, staff 

The institute had recently asked its students, teachers and staff to get vaccinated at the earliest after five new COVID-19 cases were reported on campus. Following the state government’s orders, the institute will collect vaccination certificates of all staff and students as well.  

Those who are not vaccinated so far will be asked to go through rapid antigen tests at regular intervals to curb the spread of the virus. 

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